Legacy Exclusions

You can exclude specific objects from inspection by the protections:

Adding Exclusions to a Specific Rule

To add exclusions to a specific rule:

1. Go to Policy > Threat Prevention > Policy Capabilities.

2. Select the rule Set of traffic parameters and other conditions in a Rule Base (Security Policy) that cause specified actions to be taken for a communication session. for which you want to create the exclusion

3. In the Capabilities & Exclusions pane, click Exclusions Center.

4. Expand an exclusion category. For example, Anti-Bot -> URL Filtering Exclusions.

   Note - Global Exclusions is read-only. To add Global Exclusions, see Adding Global Exclusions.

5. Expand Rule Exclusions.

6. Select the exclusions you want to add to the rule.

7. Click OK.

8. In the bottom right corner of the policy configuration pane, click Save.

9. From the top, click Install Policy.

Adding Global Exclusions

To add global exclusions that apply to all the rules:

1. Go to Policy > Threat Prevention > Global Exclusions.

2. Expand an exclusion category. For example, Anti-Bot -> URL Filtering Exclusions.

3. Select the exclusions you want to add to the rule.

4. Click Save.

5. From the top, click Install Policy.

Adding a New Exclusion to an Exclusion Category

To add an exclusion to an exclusions category:

1. Do one of these:

   • Go to Policy > Threat Prevention > Policy Capabilities.

   • Go to Policy > Threat Prevention > Global Exclusions.

   The Edit Exclusions Center window appears.

2. Click .

   The New Exclusion window appears.

3. Specify these details:

   1. Exclusion

   2. Method

   3. Value

   4. (Optional) Comment

   5. To add the exclusion to all the rules, select the Add to all rules checkbox. This step does not apply to Global Exclusions.

      Note - If the current rule contains this exception, then the system adds a duplicate exclusion.

4. Click OK.

5. In the bottom right corner of the policy configuration pane, click Save.

6. From the top, click Install Policy.

Editing an Exclusion

To edit an exclusion:

1. Do one of these:

   • Go to Policy > Threat Prevention > Policy Capabilities.

   • Go to Policy > Threat Prevention > Global Exclusions.

   The Edit Exclusions Center window opens.

2. Expand an exclusion category. For example, Anti-Bot -> URL Filtering Exclusions.

3. If you are editing a local exclusion, expand Local Exclusions. This step does not apply to Global Exclusions.

4. Select the exclusion you want to edit.

5. Click .

   The Edit Exclusion window appears.

6. Specify these details:

   1. Exclusion

   2. Method

   3. Value

   4. (Optional) Comment

   5. To apply the changes to all the rules that contain this exclusion, select the Update all rules checkbox. This step does not apply to Global Exclusions.

   6. To add the exclusion to all the rules that does not contain this exclusion, select the Add to all rules checkbox. This step does not apply to Global Exclusions.

7. Click OK.

8. In the bottom right corner of the policy configuration pane, click Save.

9. From the top, click Install Policy.

Below is the list of supported exclusions.